Abstract: Blockchains provide a way for secure decentralized storage of transactions and smart contracts. In this era of big data, we need to move beyond data storage to provide knowledge. Blockchains can be used for group decision making when the group sizes are large, and group members may want to remain anonymous. We will describe numerous use cases of our idea. This talk covers the following topics:

• Strengths of Blockchains
• Can the Blockchains be Enhanced?
• Ideas to Enhance Blockchains
• Risk Propels Progress
• Decisions with Risk
• Our Goal
• Blockchain Generations
• Current Blockchain Process
• Probabilistic Blockchain Process
• Empirical Validation
• Results
• Generalizing the Summary Function
• Blockchain 4.0: Database to Knowledge Base
• Knowledge Chain
• Summary
• Related Papers
• Related Talks
• List of Acronyms

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